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Does a Little Bit Really Go a Long Way? Infection Prevention in Ambulatory Healthcare Facilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David K. Henderson*
Affiliation:
Hospital Epidemiology Service and Office of the Deputy Director for Clinical Care, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
*
Building 10, Room 6-1480, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 (dkh@nih.gov)

Abstract

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Type
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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2011

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